Primus (Transformers)
Primus is a deity who features in Transformers.
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Biography
Generation 1
Primus was the god of light, created as an enemy to Unicron, the Chaos-Bringer. Their battle raged, Unicron seeking to destroy the newborn universe and Primus to protect it. They fought across the universe and into planes of the mind, until Primus tricked Unicron, trapping both their essences in dead asteroids.
Unicron eventually reshaped his into the planet-eating terror he became known as, while Primus took a different path. He made his asteroid a world of living machines- Cybertron- and bred a race of living machines- Transformers- to serve as the warriors to finally destroy Unicron. To help their numbers grow, he gave them the ability to reproduce via bio-morphic reproduction, until he decided there were enough of them and wiped the ability from their memory. (Despite this, later Transformers, including Lord Jhiaxus, rediscovered the ability and used it to excess.) He gave them a large portion of his life energy in the form of the Creation Matrix, allowing them to create new Transformers using the artifact. After that, Primus went into hibernation, with only the Keeper to guard him.
However, in 1990, Primus was reawakened, unleashing a scream that alerted Unicron to his location. Unicron began traveling to Cybertron to destroy his enemy, and sent Galvatron, Hook, Line, and Sinker to soften up the planet's defenses. Galvatron betrayed Unicron, however, and with the help of Emirate Xaaron, he awoke Primus again, who inhabited Xaaron's body. Primus summoned all the Transformers to Cybertron, but in trying to muster them to fight the overwhelmingly terrifying Unicron, Primus (along with Xaaron) was destroyed.
Beast Wars
Primus has been mentioned, but little is known about him.
Dreamwave
According to transformers lore, before the dawn of time, Order and Chaos existed within an extra-dimensional entity known as The One. To explore the fledgling universe, he created the astral being known as Unicron, and then subdivided him, creating his twin, Primus. Both brothers were multiversal singularities, unique in all realities, but where as Unicron could only exist in one universe at a time, moving between them at will, Primus existed simultaneously in all realities at once. It is suggested, in fact, that the two brothers embody the basic concepts of reality—good and evil, order and chaos—and that their continued existence is necessary for the stability of the multiverse.
As Unicron and Primus ventured through the cosmos, it became apparent to Primus that Unicron was a corrupt being, and then confronted the threat his sibling posed. In combat, Primus was no match for Unicron. In cunning, however, he proved himself to be his brother's superior when he shifted their battle to the astral plane, and then back to the physical world once more, sacrificing most of his strength to manifest their essences within metallic planetoids, leaving them both trapped. It was with this act of sacrifice that Primus hoped to contain the evil force forever. Unfortunately, over time, Unicron learned to physically shape his prison into a giant metallic planet, and Primus followed suit, becoming the mechanical world of Cybertron. When Unicron then learned to transform his planetary form even further, into a gigantic robot form, Primus could also, but adapted the idea, and created The Thirteen, a group of robotic beings that possessed the ability to change shape, like Unicron.
The war between Unicron and Primus came to its seeming end during a climactic battle in which one of the Thirteen, Megatronus Prime, who would forever afterwards be known as The Fallen, betrayed Primus and became an acolyte of Unicron. The battle ended when the Fallen and Unicron were sucked into a black hole and disappeared from reality. With Unicron gone for now, Primus entered an eons-long slumber, preventing Unicron from detecting him through the mental link the brothers shared.
IDW
a version of Primus appeared as a member of the Guiding Hand, a group of five deities who were the first life on Cybertron. But, Primus and his noble fellows Adaptus, Epistemus, and Solomus were betrayed by their brother Mortilus, and the conflict left all five mortally wounded. They would give way to their descendants, the Knights of Cybertron.
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Notes
- According to the Transformers Ultimate Guide, Primus was capable of transforming Cybertron into a robot like Unicron, but never chose to do so.
Appearances
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